Twitter Non-Stop Availability

By bagwell

Created 2009-03-17, 12:35

Gojko Adzic reports[1] on Twitter developer Evan Weavers presentation[2],"Improving Running Components", at QCon London 2009[3] in March. In his talk Evan Weaver covers the strategy they adopted to radically improve performance and scaling whilest at the same time maintaining 100% availability of the service. There are facinating statistics on the Twitter loads, their strategy and mention of the important part Scala played in this challenging upgrade. See the report here[1] and the slides here[2]